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Summary

  • add temporary SMB backup-upload share support
  • add a restore helper for full Unraid boot backups
  • reuse the internal-boot creation flow and update the restored GRUB unraiduuid

Depends on #34 and should merge after it.

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  • New Features

    • Added guest and authenticated network-share options for backing up boot configurations.
    • Added support for restoring boot backups from ZIP archives, including replacement of an existing boot installation.
    • Expanded recovery menus with backup, restore, password-reset, and branded navigation options.
    • Recovery media now includes required backup, restore, and network-sharing tools.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved archive, storage, path, and symbolic-link safety validation.
    • Password recovery now clears only the root password.
    • Improved installer banners, graphics handling, cleanup, error reporting, display compatibility, and recovery reliability.

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Walkthrough

The recovery system adds SMB backup access, boot backup restoration, and existing boot-pool restoration. The ISO packages these scripts and runtime tools. Password recovery clears only the root password field. Menus use UNRAID branding, and installer graphics retain the selected payload.

Changes

Recovery backup and restore

Layer / File(s) Summary
Wire recovery actions and protect root-password reset
scripts/menu_recovery.sh
Adds recovery actions and loops after each selection. Password recovery validates and clears only the root password field.
Start the recovery SMB share
scripts/menu_recovery_smb.sh
Validates storage, Samba, and networking. Creates a temporary guest or authenticated share and verifies smbd.
Restore boot backups
scripts/menu_recovery_restore.sh, scripts/create_internal_boot_user.sh
Discovers ZIP backups, validates archive contents and paths, preserves generated bootloader configuration, updates the Unraid UUID, and reports restore completion.
Replace an existing boot filesystem
scripts/menu_recovery_restore_existing.sh
Validates a backup, imports and mounts the boot pool, creates a rollback snapshot, restores boot contents, and cleans temporary state.
Package recovery assets and platform settings
scripts/build-iso.sh, scripts/build-usb-native.sh, scripts/build-kernel-zfs-cache.sh, scripts/config
Installs recovery tools, packages recovery scripts, supports runtime overrides, enables deferred framebuffer takeover, updates installer output, and retains the selected GRUB graphics payload.
Stage and execute installer payloads
scripts/create_flash_boot.sh
Stages the installer ZIP in temporary storage, reports command failures, adjusts GUI log sizes, and runs the extracted boot script from its containing directory.
Render branded recovery menus
scripts/menu_gui_common.sh, scripts/menu_gui_user.sh
Adds centered UNRAID branding for text, Whiptail, and Dialog backends. Uses the branded renderer in the main menu.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~75 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4241c

Recovery restore can discard an otherwise completed boot restore when snapshot cleanup fails, and compact layouts may turn cancellation into an unexpected hotkey prompt; these behaviors need owner review or follow-up before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RecoveryMenu
  participant RecoverySMB
  participant PersistentStorage
  participant Samba
  RecoveryMenu->>RecoverySMB: select SMB backup
  RecoverySMB->>PersistentStorage: validate storage and network
  RecoverySMB->>Samba: configure and start smbd
  Samba-->>RecoverySMB: report liveness
  RecoverySMB-->>RecoveryMenu: display SMB path and access details
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sequenceDiagram
  participant RecoveryMenu
  participant RecoveryRestore
  participant CreateInternalBoot
  participant BootPool
  RecoveryMenu->>RecoveryRestore: select ZIP backup
  RecoveryRestore->>CreateInternalBoot: invoke restore mode
  CreateInternalBoot->>BootPool: extract validated backup
  CreateInternalBoot->>CreateInternalBoot: update the Unraid UUID
  CreateInternalBoot-->>RecoveryMenu: display restore completion and log
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A rabbit checks each archive tight,
Then shares recovery through the night.
Root keeps its fields, the UUID gleams,
GRUB holds fast its graphics dreams.
UNRAID menus guide the way.

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SimonFair force-pushed the feature/recovery-smb-restore branch from 0c43227 to 95d3816 Compare July 30, 2026 23:46
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SimonFair changed the base branch from feature/add-recovery-password-reset-menu to main July 30, 2026 23:49

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In `@scripts/create_internal_boot_user.sh`:
- Around line 761-768: Add a pre-extraction validation in the restore-backup
flow before unzip writes any files, inspecting archive entry attributes to
reject every symlink entry, including symlinked directories such as config. Keep
the existing required-entry and unsafe-path checks, and ensure extraction is not
attempted when any symlink is present.

In `@scripts/menu_recovery_restore.sh`:
- Around line 21-46: Add an upper-bound validation in select_backup() after
confirming choice is numeric, rejecting values below 1 or above the available
backup count (${`#menu_args`[@]} / 2) before indexing menu_args. Preserve the
existing return-1 behavior for invalid selections and only assign backup_file
for in-range choices.

In `@scripts/menu_recovery_smb.sh`:
- Around line 44-50: Resolve the merge conflict in the directory setup around
mkdir and chmod by removing all conflict markers and retaining both sides’
behavior: create "$share_dir", "$runtime_dir", and /run/samba/ncalrpc, then
preserve the restrictive permissions for /run/samba/ncalrpc and "$share_dir".
- Around line 44-50: Update the directory setup around mkdir and chmod so
runtime_dir receives the same 0700 permissions as share_dir immediately after
creation. Preserve the existing ncalrpc setup and ensure both share_dir and
runtime_dir are restricted before Samba uses them.

In `@scripts/menu_recovery.sh`:
- Around line 138-183: Remove the duplicated boot-mountpoint validation,
config-directory resolution, symlink/containment checks, and password-file
deletion block in the recovery function. Keep the first existing sequence intact
so the flow proceeds directly to the post-deletion verification after the single
rm invocation.
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In `@scripts/menu_recovery_smb.sh`:
- Line 93: Update the auth_password assignment in scripts/menu_recovery_smb.sh
to generate a strong unpredictable password at runtime instead of using the
hardcoded "ur" value, and ensure the generated value is reused by the
authenticated SMB setup and any corresponding access instructions.

In `@scripts/menu_recovery.sh`:
- Around line 131-132: Update the shadow_file validation in the surrounding
recovery flow to reject symbolic links before any grep or awk operation reads
it. Check the path itself without following symlinks, and only continue to the
existing shadow-file processing when it is a regular, non-symlink file.
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In `@scripts/menu_recovery_restore_existing.sh`:
- Around line 24-29: Track ownership of the pool in the script’s import flow by
initializing a pool-imported flag and setting it only after zpool import
succeeds. Update cleanup to export only when that flag is set, then reset the
flag after the normal export so the EXIT trap cannot export a pool owned by
another process.
- Around line 61-66: Update the flow around validate_backup to first copy the
selected archive without following symlinks into a root-only staging file, then
validate the staged file and pass that same staged path to extraction. Ensure
extraction no longer reads the guest-writable $backup_file, and clean up the
staging file afterward.
- Around line 108-117: Add a ZFS snapshot of the boot dataset before the find
deletion in the restore flow. If deletion, unzip extraction, or sync fails,
unmount the dataset, roll back to that snapshot, and destroy the snapshot only
after a successful restore; keep the existing failure reporting and exit
behavior. After a successful restore, destroy the snapshot before exporting the
pool, and ensure zpool export failure reports cleanup failure without triggering
rollback.
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In `@scripts/build-iso.sh`:
- Around line 2245-2248: Update the CRLF normalization step in the
override-processing flow around ONBOARDING_DIR and file_name so sed failures are
not suppressed. Check the normalization command’s status and, on failure, reject
the override or restore the packaged copy before it can execute; preserve
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In `@scripts/menu_gui_common.sh`:
- Around line 238-247: Update the Whiptail and Dialog rendering paths, including
the dimensions derived near ui_brand_banner and ui_brand_logo, to fit within the
detected terminal rows and columns rather than enforcing oversized minimums.
Ensure the logo width matches the longest emitted ui_brand_logo line including
borders, and provide a compact or hotkey fallback when the terminal cannot
accommodate the branded layout so recovery_menu does not treat a renderer
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In `@scripts/menu_gui_common.sh`:
- Around line 244-250: Update the terminal-size branching around ui_menu and
ui_hotkey_select so the hotkey fallback is selected solely by the terminal
dimensions, not by ui_menu’s return status. Preserve and return ui_menu’s
nonzero cancellation status for Cancel or Esc instead of opening the fallback
prompt.

In `@scripts/menu_recovery_restore_existing.sh`:
- Around line 169-172: Update scripts/menu_recovery_restore_existing.sh lines
43-49 to track rollback-required state separately from snapshot existence, and
make cleanup roll back only when replacement has not completed. At lines
169-172, disarm rollback immediately after sync succeeds and before handling zfs
destroy failure, so snapshot-removal errors preserve the restored filesystem
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Comment on lines +244 to +250
if (( rows < 28 || cols < 96 )); then
if ui_menu "$title" "$prompt" "$@"; then
return
fi
ui_hotkey_select "$title" "$prompt" "$@"
return
fi

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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#!/bin/bash
set -eu

printf '%s\n' '--- scripts/menu_gui_common.sh ---'
sed -n '1,35p;225,285p' scripts/menu_gui_common.sh

printf '%s\n' '--- scripts/menu_recovery.sh ---'
sed -n '195,235p' scripts/menu_recovery.sh

printf '%s\n' '--- ui_menu and related call sites ---'
rg -n -A35 -B10 '(^|[[:space:]])ui_menu[[:space:]]*\(|ui_menu_with_brand|ui_hotkey_select' scripts

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#!/bin/bash
set -eu

printf '%s\n' '--- dimension and backend helpers ---'
sed -n '35,125p' scripts/menu_gui_common.sh

printf '%s\n' '--- status-flow verifier ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
import re

path = Path("scripts/menu_gui_common.sh")
text = path.read_text()

for start, end in ((238, 250), (263, 273), (353, 382)):
    lines = text.splitlines()
    print(f"lines {start}-{end}:")
    for number in range(start, end + 1):
        print(f"{number}: {lines[number - 1]}")

compact_branches = [
    text.splitlines()[244:250],
    text.splitlines()[267:273],
]
for index, branch in enumerate(compact_branches, 1):
    body = "\n".join(branch)
    print(f"branch {index}:")
    print("  calls ui_hotkey_select after ui_menu failure:",
          bool(re.search(r"if ui_menu .*?;\s*then.*?fi\s*ui_hotkey_select", body, re.S)))
    print("  returns ui_menu status unchanged:",
          bool(re.search(r"ui_menu .*?;\s*return", body, re.S)))
PY

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Preserve cancellation from the standard menu.

When ui_menu returns nonzero, these branches call ui_hotkey_select. ui_menu forwards whiptail and dialog cancellation statuses, so Cancel or Esc opens a second text prompt. Select the hotkey fallback from terminal-size checks, not from ui_menu status; otherwise return that status unchanged.

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In `@scripts/menu_gui_common.sh` around lines 244 - 250, Update the terminal-size
branching around ui_menu and ui_hotkey_select so the hotkey fallback is selected
solely by the terminal dimensions, not by ui_menu’s return status. Preserve and
return ui_menu’s nonzero cancellation status for Cancel or Esc instead of
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Comment on lines +169 to +172
if ! zfs destroy "$snapshot_name"; then
ui_msg "Restore Existing Internal Boot" "Unable to remove the restore rollback snapshot."
exit 1
fi

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not roll back after a completed restore.

If zfs destroy "$snapshot_name" fails after sync succeeds, the script exits with snapshot_created=1. cleanup then rolls back the completed restore and can destroy the rollback snapshot. This discards the restored boot filesystem after reporting only a snapshot-cleanup error.

  • scripts/menu_recovery_restore_existing.sh#L169-L172: disarm rollback before handling snapshot removal failure. Preserve the restored filesystem if snapshot removal fails.
  • scripts/menu_recovery_restore_existing.sh#L43-L49: use separate state for “rollback required” and “snapshot exists.” Only roll back when replacement did not complete.
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In `@scripts/menu_recovery_restore_existing.sh` around lines 169 - 172, Update
scripts/menu_recovery_restore_existing.sh lines 43-49 to track rollback-required
state separately from snapshot existence, and make cleanup roll back only when
replacement has not completed. At lines 169-172, disarm rollback immediately
after sync succeeds and before handling zfs destroy failure, so snapshot-removal
errors preserve the restored filesystem while still reporting the cleanup
failure.

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